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From USA Today:

A senior member of Saddam Hussein’s ousted government is believed to be helping coordinate attacks on American forces with members of an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group, a senior defense official said Wednesday.

Two captured members of Ansar al-Islam have said Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is helping to coordinate their attacks, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

That information is the first solid evidence of links between remnants of Saddam’s regime and the non-Iraqi fighters responsible for at least some of the attacks on U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies, the official said.

The first person to send me a link to a news story (newspaper, magazine or web) or op-ed piece arguing that our liberation of Iraq forced Saddam’s cronies into working with al Qaeda, will win a shiny new VodkaPundit coffee mug.

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